Caraway v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co.

SLATTON, Justice.

Mrs. H. V. Caraway, for herself and as next friend for G. L. Caraway, her husband, filed this suit in the district court of Gonzales county, against John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, to cancel a deed of trust lien and a trustee’s deed covering a 50-acre tract of land situated in Gonzales county. During the pendency of the suit the husband, G. L. Caraway, passed .away, and the suit was continued by Mrs. H. V. Caraway, for herself and as survivor in community; the theory of recovery being, that at the time of the incumbrance of the 50-acre tract of land in suit, the…